FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS.

Evening Star, Issue 5589, 5 February 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS.

Tha o4& at the battle of Khnshk-I-Nakhui", where Gntorftl Barrowa was defeated by Ayomh Khaa, were Tory grc«fc, Mis British feroes being probably outnumbered by mora than twelre t© one « but in ladiaa warfare this proportion ia not at all exeeptienaL Colonel Mallesoa, in bib " History of the Indian Mutiny," just trabHshe4, relates aa inatanoe of the pluok of Bir Hngh lUm in engaging an army twenty «i«ea aa nnnserous a* his own, aad beating it iflfco the bargain. It was whilst be was besieging Jaansi, one cf the strongest fartresses in India and containing a garrison of 11,000 men, tha* he hoard of tha approach of Taatla Tepee, wha was marehing at the head ©f 22,000 men to the relM of tha beleaguered eifey. General B*m dured n«t break up the siege, as it wenld hare resulted in a loss of prestige which might hare prored fatal to *h« auooMM of fcke Kagiith arm*, aad leaving, therefore, jn»t sufficient strength to carry on tha attaok with riger he set off with only 1,509 nei to engage the vastly-superior host of Tantia Topee. Despite the faot that the latter had under hia oommand whole regimen** who hod had a European training, and in additi«n twenty-eight welleerred guns, Sir Hugh Boae oompletcly defeated hia, with the l<ns of some 1,500 killed and wonnded and a whole park of artillery. _____